Improved tool for watch-repairers



NITED STATES E. M. KIMBALL, OF TOLEDO, OHIO.

IMPROVED TOOL FOR WATCH-REPAIHEFLS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 411,957, dated November 8, 1864.

To a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, E. M. KIMBALL, of Toledo, in the county of Lucas and State of Ohio, have invented a new and Improved Tool for /Vatch-Reliairers; and I do hereby de clare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specihcation, in which- Figure 1 is a plan or top view of the tool. Fig. 2 is an inverted plan or top view of the saine. Fig. 3 is a central vertical section of the saine.

Similar letters and numbers of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several iigures.

Much difficulty has been heretofore expe rienced by repairers ot' watches in keeping the several screws so arranged, after taking the watch apart, that they can be at once reinserted in their proper holes, and many ot' the screws are so much alike that in oase of their getting mixed, much loss of time is occasioned by having to nd the proper screws for the several holes.

The object ot' my invention is to obviate this difficulty; and to this end it consists in what I term a screw-holder,77 composed of a plate having provided in it a sufficient ninnber of holes, or' such sizes and so arranged, that by placing the screws therein one at a time, as they are taken trom the watch, each one can be selected as required when it is to be replaced.

1t also consists in so constructing and providing a central hole or socket in the said plate as to enable it to be used as a support in striking out the center or hand-post, when necessary, and as a support for the balance in putting on the haii-'spring collet, when, for any cause, it has been removed, the centra portion being` thereby also made to serve as safe place to keep the balance while the watch is being cleaned or repaired.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

A is the plate, of circular form, having a central pedestal or foot, B, which supports it at some distance from the table or bench, as shown in Fig. 3, in which the line a represents the surface of the table or bench. 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 114 13, represent holes arranged like the screw-holes of a watch with anchor7 escapement. Around these holes there are inscribed, on the upper surface ot' the plate, shown in Fig. 1, representations of the several cocks of the above-n1entioned kind of watch, to indicate which holes are to receive the several screws thereof. rIhe holes are of such size as to admit the screws, but not to let their heads pass through, that 'the screws may be suspended therein by their heads. rIhe screws, as they are severally removed, are placed one by one into the holes ot' the plate corresponding with their respective holes of the watch, a-ud can be at once selected, as required for replacement.

The central foot or pedestal, B, has drilled or bored centrally through it, a central hole, 14, for the reception ot' a portion of the balance-staff', and thereby make the central portion of the plate constitutea safe place to deposit the balance while cleaning or repairing the other parts of the watch, or as a restingplace for the balance while putting on the hair-sprin g collet. By inverting the plate to bring the foot upward the foot is `made to serve as a socketsupport in striking out the center or hand post.

The plate represented may also be made to serve as a receptacle for the screws ot any other kind of watch having a smaller number of screws than the anchorby arianging the screws in any manner that is so understood by the workman that he may select them one by one, as required, for replacement; or the plate may be made with holes corresponding in number or arrangement with the screws of any other kind of watch.

WV hat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The screw-holder, consisting ot' a plate having a system of holes, arranged substantiall y as herein described, for the reception of the screws ot' a watch, for the purpose herein set forth.

2. Constructing the said screw-holder with a central foot or pedestal, with a central hole or socket, 14, substantially as and for the purn pose specified.

E. M. KIMBALL.

Witnesses;

F. T. rie-GER, T. A. GLIFT. 

